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you know i like chuck hagel a lot. and you like him a lot. >> i do. >> we've loved working with him at the atlantic council. i want him to be sec spadef. i'm just explaining for people in washington, and ed certainly knows this, payback is hell. and hagel's learning it just like ted cruz is going to learn it in the future. >> me thinks, though, carl bernstein is really funny that john mccain or lindsey graham would call someone disagreeable at times. is that just me? >> i'll let you say that. i wrote the original cover story for "vanity fair" on john mccain in 1999. and part of the institutional history here is the john tower nomination, which is the other nominee for secretary of defense who was rejected by a partisan democratic witch hunt on grounds that john tower was a womanizer and drank too much. now, those might be somewhat accurate or might not be. but whatever the case, it was a very personal fight like this one. in this case, chuck hagel who we all know how smart he can be, how effective hean be, was awful. i
you know i like chuck hagel a lot. and you like him a lot. >> i do. >> we've loved working with him at the atlantic council. i want him to be sec spadef. i'm just explaining for people in washington, and ed certainly knows this, payback is hell. and hagel's learning it just like ted cruz is going to learn it in the future. >> me thinks, though, carl bernstein is really funny that john mccain or lindsey graham would call someone disagreeable at times. is that just me? >>...
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it seems that chuck schumer is the key to chuck hagel's failure or success. tell us why. >> that's right. and first we have to do happy friday. >> happy friday. >> happy friday. >> boy, do we need that. >> and this is a surprise. senator schumer has been telling his allies in new york, especially jewish groups, that would be, quote, very hard, very hard for him to support chuck hagel for pentagon head because of his positions on israel the other day. the real canary in the coal mine on the trouble that the hagel nomination has faced was on "meet the press" several weaks ago when senator schumer surprisingly wouldn't commit to supporting him. and usually when the president has a nominee, favorite nominee, a name out there, the number three democrat in the senate, chuck schumer, is going to say sure, i'll support him. he said he's going to listen for the hearings. and that's where he still is. just wednesday at a private breakfast at park avenue winter, one of those fancy restaurants up there, senator schumer was saying that he was very uneasy about senator hag
it seems that chuck schumer is the key to chuck hagel's failure or success. tell us why. >> that's right. and first we have to do happy friday. >> happy friday. >> happy friday. >> boy, do we need that. >> and this is a surprise. senator schumer has been telling his allies in new york, especially jewish groups, that would be, quote, very hard, very hard for him to support chuck hagel for pentagon head because of his positions on israel the other day. the real...
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opposition was meant to settle old scores. >> is it payback time for chuck hagel? that's what this process has amounted to? >> of course not. 99% of it is to do with the positions that senator hagel has taken. the positions he's taken on various issues has frankly been not only out of the mainstream but far to the left. we will have a vote when we get back, and i'm confident that senator hagel will probably have the votes necessary to be confirmed as the secretary of defense. we have an obligation of advice and consent. i don't intend to give those up when other senators continue to have reasonable questions. i mean reasonable. >> but you're not a yes vote for your old friend? >> no, i don't believe he's qualified, but i don't believe that we should hold up his nomination any further. >> all right. what do you think of what the senator had to say? fair? >> i think all of it was very fair. there are a lot of democrats right now that are asking the question. they've said it to us, that they're not sure if chuck hagel is qualified to be secretary of defense after his
opposition was meant to settle old scores. >> is it payback time for chuck hagel? that's what this process has amounted to? >> of course not. 99% of it is to do with the positions that senator hagel has taken. the positions he's taken on various issues has frankly been not only out of the mainstream but far to the left. we will have a vote when we get back, and i'm confident that senator hagel will probably have the votes necessary to be confirmed as the secretary of defense. we...
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about chuck hagel? >> i think they're being ridiculous lly obstinent and pu things on the table that really matter right now. this is going to happen. so it's just silly. thank you, marco rubio and ted cruz, lindsey. right. okay. >>> up next, american folk singer woody guthrie best known for his song "this land is your land" composed music that defined a generation. now a new book by guthrie that was previously believed to have been lost has been unearthed. historian douglas brinkley and woody guthrie's daughter, nora, are here with the novel "house of earth." that's when we come back. hi. hi. i'm here to pick up some cacti. it should be under stephens. the verizon share everything plan for small business. get a shareable pool of data... got enough joshua trees? ... on up to 25 devices. so you can spend less time... yea, the golden barrels... managing wireless costs and technology and more time driving your business potential. looks like we're going to need to order more agaves... ah! oh! ow! ... and mo
about chuck hagel? >> i think they're being ridiculous lly obstinent and pu things on the table that really matter right now. this is going to happen. so it's just silly. thank you, marco rubio and ted cruz, lindsey. right. okay. >>> up next, american folk singer woody guthrie best known for his song "this land is your land" composed music that defined a generation. now a new book by guthrie that was previously believed to have been lost has been unearthed. historian...
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you know what, the preside president -- they keep saying charges is chuck hagel. >> chuck hagel is coming in as part of team. the president sets the tone. you should give the executive a chance to put their team together whether you agree or disagree. it won't be chuck hagel being held accountable, the president of the united states. he's won that right through a second election and hope we give him that opportunity. >> most importantly, alabama, nick sabin, your recruiting buddy. >> tough in the living room, may be good on the ball field but even better than the living room. >> always good to be with y'all. >> coming up, chris matthews and al hunt and chuck todd from the white house. keep it live right here on "morning joe." [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just com
you know what, the preside president -- they keep saying charges is chuck hagel. >> chuck hagel is coming in as part of team. the president sets the tone. you should give the executive a chance to put their team together whether you agree or disagree. it won't be chuck hagel being held accountable, the president of the united states. he's won that right through a second election and hope we give him that opportunity. >> most importantly, alabama, nick sabin, your recruiting buddy....
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and that's one thing that we really didn't get a sense of from chuck hagel throughout the about three hours of testimony, he really made a passionate case for his love of serving the country, his expertise in this area, and the seriousness with which he would take some of the concerns these senators brought to him. promising more transparency, promising truthfulness when one democrat, in particular, said she has been, quote, jerked around by just about every cia director in her long tenure and time on that specific committee. so he was very persuasive there. when richard talks about the trouble he had with waterboarding, in part, he was really trying to avoid using the word "torture" because it does have a legal implication, and it has such a political implication. that that would have been such a huge headline if he had, in fact, called it torture. so he said pretty much everything around that. he does have the issue of having been part of a time when these things were used in saying, quite plainly, he didn't do anything to try to stop it. nears there's no record they could find of h
and that's one thing that we really didn't get a sense of from chuck hagel throughout the about three hours of testimony, he really made a passionate case for his love of serving the country, his expertise in this area, and the seriousness with which he would take some of the concerns these senators brought to him. promising more transparency, promising truthfulness when one democrat, in particular, said she has been, quote, jerked around by just about every cia director in her long tenure and...
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today secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel are going to be going before a senate committee to lobby for military strikes against syria. you know there are going to be fireworks there. the president must sell both the international community and a body at home that is deeply divided over the way forward. >> i think the line in the sand should be that america gets involved when american interests are threatened. i don't see american interests involved on either side of this syrian war. >> i believe we will rally behind the principle that use of chemical weapons is wrong and can't go unpunished. >> i'm afraid it's shown weakness there. >> not something that should be undertaken lightly. the mood in the district i represent is do not do this. >> god forbid that in the suburbs i represent a tyrant went after our babies, that a nation as strong as the united states would stand up for my children. >> i don't see any way that a civil war in syria and the fact that this evil man is using chemicals to kill his own people how that affects directly or indirectly our na
today secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel are going to be going before a senate committee to lobby for military strikes against syria. you know there are going to be fireworks there. the president must sell both the international community and a body at home that is deeply divided over the way forward. >> i think the line in the sand should be that america gets involved when american interests are threatened. i don't see american interests involved on either...
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he has done it on chuck hagel and done it throughout and with a tone of disrespect that is upsetting a lot of republicans and upsetting a lot of democrats every time he rares his head since he has been in the senate. he hasn't been there very long. he takes this tone and adopted this position to advance some kind of a gender that is trying to get him in a particular place with the republican party. >> i don't mind people being condescending to me. i really don't. no, i'm serious. i can smirk and i can fire right back. but when you're condescending and you don't even have the facts right, when you're misstating what the second amendment says, as interpreted, by the conservative supreme court by scalia, i have a problem with that. >> yeah. reverend al, later in the hearing senator feinstein said the first amendment doesn't stop us from regulating some forms of speech like child pornography. other democrats pointed out the first amendment doesn't protect people from yelling fire in a crowded theaters but would not be a violation of the second amendment to prevent someone from bringing a
he has done it on chuck hagel and done it throughout and with a tone of disrespect that is upsetting a lot of republicans and upsetting a lot of democrats every time he rares his head since he has been in the senate. he hasn't been there very long. he takes this tone and adopted this position to advance some kind of a gender that is trying to get him in a particular place with the republican party. >> i don't mind people being condescending to me. i really don't. no, i'm serious. i can...
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secretary of defense, chuck hagel, spoke about the findings. >> we need all the facts. we need all the information. as to a red line, my role as secretary of defense is to give the president options on a policy issue. that's a policy issue. and we'll be prepared to do that. as such time that the president requires options. >> meanwhile, senator john mccain, who has been a leading voice for u.s. military involvement main syria, has expressed disappointment at the obama. >> he slaughtered 80,000 people while we've watched. it's been one of the most shameful challenges in american history. >> you know, mika, the books are going to be written. five years from now, ten years from now. how the united states did nothing while 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80,000 syrians were slaughtered. we know that's going to happen. of course, those books won't have the feel for the time that we were just coming out of two wars, a decade of war and we were exhausted, but that is the case and i think at this point, this really leaves the president with few options. as far as keeping -- he can'
secretary of defense, chuck hagel, spoke about the findings. >> we need all the facts. we need all the information. as to a red line, my role as secretary of defense is to give the president options on a policy issue. that's a policy issue. and we'll be prepared to do that. as such time that the president requires options. >> meanwhile, senator john mccain, who has been a leading voice for u.s. military involvement main syria, has expressed disappointment at the obama. >> he...
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the president will be making remarks along with defense secretary chuck hagel and martin dempsey. they will be looking at where we have gone from here. remembering what happened 12 years ago today. 12 years since the trade towers fell. since we watched people falling to their deaths, jumping to their deaths and escaping the burning towers and doing everything they can to try and get away from the flames inside. those moments are seared in our national memory and our minds. we remember 12 years later it's important to remember to never forget the people who were lost and those who worked in the weeks and weeks and weeks at ground zero trying to remember and bring together pieces of people's lives and memories. here now is the moment of silence. the first when the first plane hit. >> that was the first moment of silence marking the beginning of the attacks on the world trade towers. there will be a second moment of silence to mark when the second plane hit at ground zero. we want to remember the sacrifices that our military families make every day for our country, especially since t
the president will be making remarks along with defense secretary chuck hagel and martin dempsey. they will be looking at where we have gone from here. remembering what happened 12 years ago today. 12 years since the trade towers fell. since we watched people falling to their deaths, jumping to their deaths and escaping the burning towers and doing everything they can to try and get away from the flames inside. those moments are seared in our national memory and our minds. we remember 12 years...
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hagel and their counterparting still meeting. we know you canceled the meeting but how do you plan on reigniting that relationship. those are two of the questions that will be great to get answers from the president on. >> we'll see what next move is with russia that's for sure. we can't stop talking about 2016 although embarrassingly far ahead on the calendar. indications about hillary clinton and what she's doing in the south. explain. >> we're still i think 1200 days away, but in georgia, this is good news for hillary clinton, in georgia, when you stack her up against some of the republican counterparts she actually does pretty well. you consider that state went for mitt romney by 8 percentage points in 2012 so that's pretty good. beating rand paul, beating paul ryan, tied with jeb bush, but, of course, the big sort of rock star seems to be chris christie. she trails him by two points in that state. sort of funny a new jersey guy is doing so well in georgia. but regardless, that's pretty good news for hillary clinton if she's
hagel and their counterparting still meeting. we know you canceled the meeting but how do you plan on reigniting that relationship. those are two of the questions that will be great to get answers from the president on. >> we'll see what next move is with russia that's for sure. we can't stop talking about 2016 although embarrassingly far ahead on the calendar. indications about hillary clinton and what she's doing in the south. explain. >> we're still i think 1200 days away, but in...
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a special victims counsel and looking at how data is collected i've actually asked secretary hagel to report back to me on what was in last year's defense authorization act and what action has been taken. >> chuck, let's move on to some other developments in washington, d.c. first of all, let's talk about the president. obviously, he has been buffetted by negative stories the past week or so and new poll has him sitting at 53%, ruffle the same number he got elected by in the fall. could be a lot of democrats coming home. but there's another side of this poll that talks about americans actually thinking the republicans are taking the right steps on the irs and investigations. also the a.p. story, as well as surprisingly the highest number of republicans get approval for, ben ghazi. that's about a 15-20-point jump. what is going on? >> i think the public is rightfully skeptical what is going on in washington in general and i think that if the poll is sending any message, it's basically saying, well, the president, we don't think he is a corrupt guy. we like him and think he is a decent
a special victims counsel and looking at how data is collected i've actually asked secretary hagel to report back to me on what was in last year's defense authorization act and what action has been taken. >> chuck, let's move on to some other developments in washington, d.c. first of all, let's talk about the president. obviously, he has been buffetted by negative stories the past week or so and new poll has him sitting at 53%, ruffle the same number he got elected by in the fall. could...